History Recap / FraggleRockS3E5PebblePoxBlues

'''Boober:''' [[LittleNo Ohhhh, no...!]] ''[He [[FaintInShock faints in shock]].]''

-->'''Boober:''' All right, germs, this is the day you've all been waiting for. Come and get me! ''[He picks up Wembley.]''\\

'''Boober:''' [[BigNo Ohhhh, no...!]] ''[He [[FaintInShock faints in shock]].]''

** Gobo, Wembley, and, Boober all come down with pebble pox.

* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Alone with Wembley, Boober has the chance to get far away from him so he won't catch the Pebble Pox. He decides to stay and help Wembley.

Accompanying Wembley to gather medicinal ingredients for Gobo's pebble pox, Boober tells how him horrible the disease is. Wembley then falls down ill, because he was holding Gobo's map and the germs on it spread to him, and is convinced he is going to die. Boober is terrified of catching the pebble pox himself but stays and comforts Wembley, admitting he had exaggerated the severity of the illness. Boober manages to get the ingredients, and Wembley becomes well enough to return home. Upon seeing him, Red notices that little red dots are starting to appear on Boober's face.

** Boober, in order to save Wembley.
** And Sprocket, in order to impress Ms. Ardath's Airedale, Marigold, who is sick and AfraidOfDoctors.

* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Boober's decision to stay and help Wembley.

* IronicJuxtaposition: Boober's and Wembley's discussions about Gobo's outward nonchalant attitude toward the Pebble Pox are intercut with scenes of Gobo, who clearly has a less severe case of the pox than Wembley, yowling in pain and complaining constantly.

* AnnoyingPatient: Red is acting as Gobo's nursemaid. He drives her crazy with his moaning and groaning and nonstop demands.

'''Gobo:''' Uh... well, yeah, but... it could't have been as bad as this!

'''Wembley:''' Sure, Boober. Because it isn't you that's going to... die!

'''Boober:''' What? You, the sickest Fraggle I have ever seen, are telling ''me'' not to be afraid?\\

* OhCrap: Boober, when Red tells him that little red dots are starting to appear on his face.

* ForceFeeding: Discussed, when Red is trying to deal with Gobo's whining.

* AnnoyingPatient: Gobo drives Red crazy with his moaning and groaning and nonstop demands.

** At one point, Wembley starts hallucinating about Poison Cacklers, which were mentioned by Boober in [[Recap/FraggleRockS1E23TheBeastOfBluerock "The Beast of Bluerock"]] and by Wembley in [[Recap/FraggleRockS2E9SirHubrisAndTheGorgs "Sir Hubris and the Gorgs."]]

* SickEpisode: Gobo, Wembley, Boober, and some Doozers all come down with pebble pox.

-->'''Mokey:''' Oh, Red, don't be so hard on him. Being sick can be very difficult.\\

Accompanying Wembley to gather medicinal ingredients for Gobo's pebble pox, Boober tells how him horrible the disease is. Wembley then falls down ill, because he was holding Gobo's map and the germs on it spread to him. Boober is terrified of catching the pebble pox himself but stays and comforts Wembley, admitting he had exaggerated the severity of the illness. Boober manages to get the ingredients, and Wembley becomes well enough to return home. Upon seeing him, Red notices that little red dots are starting to appear on Boober's face.

* ContinuityNod: Red, while taking care of Gobo, is wearing Mokey's apron, first seen in the episode [[Recap/FraggleRockS1E17Marooned "Marooned."]]

* FaceYourFears: Boober, in order to save Wembley.

* CantBelieveISaidThat: Boober says this after admitting to Wembley that he had exaggerated the severity of pebble pox, especially by singing "Talkin' Bout Germs."

* ChickenpoxEpisode: Gobo comes down with pebble pox, which leaves him itchy and feverish and is highly contagious. The germaphobic Boober has to go out and get ingredients for the cure, but he starts to panic when Wembley, who came along with him, starts to get sick as well. It's also stated you only get pebble pox once, and that Red and Mokey have already had it.

* PolkaDotDisease: The titular pebble pox.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: At the beginning, Boober is both angry and grossed out because Morley Fraggle just sneezed on him.

** And Sprocket, in order to impress Ms. Ardath's Airedale Marigold, who is sick and AfraidOfDoctors.